Issue: showwiki.php links fail

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September 15, 2017 1:06 PM

Alfa1

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showwiki.php links fail

Im not sure why this is not working:
/wiki/Questions_and_Answers
has this link:
/forum/showwiki.php?title=Donating
I don't know why it was not converted during import.
Surely this should redirect to:
/wiki/Donating

But it doesn't. Is this something that I need to set somewhere? Or is this a bug?

Issue Details

Issue Number 5232

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category URLs / Routing

Status Working as Designed

Priority 3 - Loss of Functionality

Affected Version 4.0.19

Fixed Version (none)

Milestone (none)

Software DependencyXenForo 1.x

License TypePaid

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

Tags (none)

September 15, 2017 2:41 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

The link in question uses the URL BB-Code, which takes a static URL and is not a wiki BB-Code. Only wiki links inside actual wiki tags are converted.

showwiki.php is also a completely valid entry point under VaultWiki 4, so there is not a reason to convert it. In fact if you stayed on vBulletin, you could set the wiki route option to 'showwiki' and be done with it. However, in XenForo the only valid entry point for anything (forums, threads, profiles, etc) is index.php.

If you need to forward showwiki.php URLs to XenForo, you should setup the appropriate .htaccess rules and/or use the redirect script provided in the do_not_upload section of the ZIP.

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September 15, 2017 4:58 PM

Alfa1

Distinguished Member

I need to forward showwiki urls to the correct Vaultwiki url. Is this possible?

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September 16, 2017 10:20 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Have you tried the redirect script? It is supposed to do this. There is a redirect scripts folder in the do_not_upload directory of the ZIP.

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September 16, 2017 12:03 PM
Alfa1

Distinguished Member
I have placed the showwiki.php redirection script in /forum/
However, it doesn't work at this time.
On this page: /wiki/Questions_and_Answers
There is a link to: /forum/showwiki.php?title=Donating
Which no longer shows a 404 but now shows a blank screen.
It should redirect to: /wiki/Donating

Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me that this type of URL could be rewritten relatively easy?
From: /forum/showwiki.php?title=X
To: /wiki/X

So that no redirection is needed for those links within VW articles. I have do this for forum content with a replacement query:

Code:

UPDATE xf_post SET message = REPLACE(message, '/forum/showwiki.php?title=', '/wiki/');

Is the same not possible for VW?

This would not remove the needed for a working redirect, but it would fix a lot of URLs.
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September 16, 2017 12:50 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Added support for 301config.php to the redirect scripts, so they can work when the redirects are from a different directory than the XenForo installation. This is labeled as a new feature of the scripts for the next release. You will notice that your test links are now redirecting correctly.

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